Flying

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  Seven Songs for the Week #92 - 8th Jan 25

  Jason Carty

  Summing it all up, wistful/eerie instrumentals, Beatles streaming radio offered up Flying. The only original Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starr composition released in the Beatles 1960s lifetime, and the only instrumental. There is a c.9 minute bootleg version that I would include here if a could. The Beatles catalogue is getting messy now, because Flying could do with a sonic tidying and a remix, like much of the Fabs catalogue has been getting since 2016, but now there is a whole trench of songs that don't seem to be in line for this. MMT is particularly precarious as it wasn't an album in the formal sense originally, although it's the only Capitol reissue that they gave permission for, so that counts for something. 7 of the 11 songs have already had a recent remix elsewhere (on the 2023 Blue 1967-1970 comp) and the tracks did get a surround mix on the MMT movie bluray, but how to get to those. Oh well.